a fren asked me, what do i like best bout france.

i said it was the culture and i thought to myself about all the things i didn't like bout singapore and naively imagined that it was the opposite in france.

i don't like that we outwardly say that it's all right but in reality, it isn't; that we like smth, but in reality, we don't like it and yet we smile like we're the happiest pple in the world. i dont like that we always poke our nose into other pple's business, like why do pple hafta crane their necks as they drive pass just to see what happened at an accident, or read the papers over somebody else's shoulder. like how we can't sit and watch the world go by. but i guess these are vices of the society or of human nature..can't complain right. and i'd be wrong to say that all these don't exist in france. maybe it only does in timbuktu.
as with busy, developed cities, making money can make you inhumane and unfeeling. but recently i changed my mind. a dear fren was illustrating to me how he does trading and analyzes the markets..he likened it to how the concept of value is being materialized, values of companies, of countries, how much trading is an art. it is not the character of the job that makes a person inhuman, it's the motivations of the person. one sees that his passion IS the market and not the money he makes.
it's all in the heart. french love their country and their culture no matter how much the world thinks that they're irrelevant. and it makes pple be attracted to them.